Dr Scott Arthur

21 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Motability: Motor Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has had recent discussions with Motability Operations on encouraging the sourcing of UK-manufactured vehicles.

20 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Occupied Territories: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the Government of Israel on the release of medical personnel detained in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

17 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Motability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish a written response the Reverse Gear report published by the Adam Smith Institute on 11 September 2025.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to concessionary bus travel for disabled people.

16 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Cybersecurity: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on legal frameworks to support legitimate cybersecurity research.

15 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on re-establishing a central capacity for co-ordinating preventative mental health work.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the time to consult on Hugh’s Law to ensure earlier legislative consideration.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Edinburgh

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vintage cars were registered in Edinburgh in each year since 2010.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stem Cells: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of donors for stem cell transplants.

13 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered increasing alcohol duty; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on (a) the hospitality sector and (b) levels of excessive drinking.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestine: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will consider allowing Palestinian students starting studies at UK universities in 2025 to apply to bring dependent children to the UK.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the (a) findings of and (b) recommendation on alcohol and breast cancer in the World Cancer Research Fund's 2025 report entitled

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to the NHS of treating breast cancer cases in the UK that are attributable to alcohol consumption.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many breast cancer cases in the UK are estimated to be caused by alcohol consumption each year; and what percentage of total breast cancer cases this represents.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of public awareness on the potential impact of alcohol consumption on levels of breast cancer risk.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish a timeline for strengthening voluntary guidelines for alcohol labelling.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on the role of industry advertising in reducing the rate of alcohol harms.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to link alcohol duty increases to inflation.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the (a) timely and (b) consistent diagnosis and (c) treatment for people living with postural tachycardia syndrome.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces serving in Scotland who are considered not medically deployable are awaiting treatment; and how many have been waiting longer than six months.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coral Reefs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the article by the University of Edinburgh entitled Rescuing the cities of the deep: Corals from oil platforms find new homes off Shetland, published on 16 September

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Waste

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department plans to take to help prevent waste leakage offshore following the inclusion of Energy from Waste in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme; and whether his Department plan

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Capture and Storage: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when his Department plans to (a) publish a revised timeline for the track-2 cluster sequencing process and (b) provide funding for non-pipeline carbon capture projects.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with motorway service station operators on the rollout of rapid electric vehicle charging stations across the strategic road network in England.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on integrating electric vehicle charging infrastructure in (a) new housing developments and (b) public spaces.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing targeted fiscal incentives to support (a) small businesses and (b) community organisations in installing electric vehicle charging point

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the capacity of the national grid to support projected growth in electric vehicle charging demand over the next decade.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure equitable access to public electric vehicle charging infrastructure in (a) rural and (b) low-income urban areas.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussion with the Child Poverty Taskforce on the potential impact of (a) the removal and (b) reform of the two-child benefit cap on the educational outcomes for children.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the two-child benefit cap on incentivising employment among affected families.